Wow -- four pages of posts about bad guns and nobody has bashed Hi-Point yet! Maybe those who bought H-P are ashamed to admit?

Or more likely they don't belong in the hunk of junk category!
Big, awkward, ugly, unrefined, yes. Junk, no, Reliable, and accurate with unquestionably the best customer support in the business! But they are so tough that customer support isn't often needed.

They are perfectly reliable double action but can bind when you try to thumb cock them for single action. One is a LNIB 3rd gen nickel detective special and the other is an e nickel Diamondback (that I just sent to Colt).

I'm not calling Colts "junk" though. They are just old and need a little TLC.

They are perfectly reliable double action but can bind when you try to thumb cock them for single action. One is a LNIB 3rd gen nickel detective special and the other is an e nickel Diamondback (that I just sent to Colt).

If it's being caused by what I think, it's a fairly simple fix. I'm guessing the cylinder bolt (stop) is disengaging itself from the rebound lever prematurely and popping back up to lock the cylinder in place before the hand starts to rotate it.

I studied the SP101 carefully before I gave up and sent it back to Ruger, and could never see any obvious cause for my problem. It left me with a bad taste for Ruger revolvers. What galls me most of all is that it went back THREE times and they couldn't fix it. I guess in those days they didn't care about customer relations and never offered me a replacement.

i really dont know what you guys are talking about, I took my dad's high point .380 to the range once just to take a look, I have no idea how old it was or how many rounds were put through it but jammed frequently, well i guess more stovepipes but the accuracy was terrible. 10 yards id aim dead center, first round about 4" low and left, ok i didnt expect much. The next shot aimed at the same spot, maybe a foot staight low? All the rest of the shots danced aound those areas, I felt like the round had troubles making it there. I have no idea what that was about. I'll trust my revolvers, cz's, glock's, sig's and H&k's anyday. I dont know much about high point but with that beat up old gun, I wasnt impressed. itll work if your close but id prefer just about any other weapon, possibly even a knife.

Worst pieces of trash I bought were from Leinad/cobray.
Bought them on a website, and had no idea that such unsafe guns could pass any government inspections, nor did I ever think that someone could sell them in good conscience.
They were so unsafe that I never fired them, and did not resell them, as I would fear for the safety of anyone who might have the misfortune to load them.
This month I am giving them to one of several "turn in your guns for gift certificate" programs in my city.
Take heed: these guns are a travesty and are a blight on gun safety.

Taurus Judge lightweight. Inaccurate with .45C loads. If you held the gun upright and lightly touched the trigger the cylinder stop would retract and the cylinder would turn out of battery until it locked up at the second the trigger broke. I had it repaired and sold it. Never had a good Taurus revolver and never had a bad Taurus semi-auto.

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SIG mosquito .22! would not feed anything! even the factory recommended CCI hot ammo would jam, installed the lighter recoil spring which was suppose to help, didn't, polished the feed ramp, no help, gave up and traded it for a kahr cm9. then bought a ruger mark III 22/45 awesome little 22!

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Hi Point C9, thought it would be as good as the .45 I traded away a couple years ago. I was very very wrong jammed at least twice on every mag. I dont care if it has a lifetime warranty. I would like it to work out of the box. Guess Im spoiled with reliable quailty products.

In some ways,I think that just because of the sheer high volume of Taurus firearms out there in the world,the chances of finding/having a poor one is also higher.

Lol. Especially when 6 out of 10 are poor. =P when a 40 year old S&W it still holding together better then three seperate taurus models... I doubt the reason is they are churning out SO MANY high quality firearms that all we can find are the lemons.

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Wasn't all the gun's fault, more my own for not fully checking out before purchase - Looked great on the outside, but the machining on the interior of the slide and frame was horrible - looked like the bits had skittered over the parts it was cutting.

Would shoot and feed fine for the most part, but every few shots the slide wouldn't go into battery, would be about 1/8" - 1/4" shy - had to tap the back of the slide with left thumb to fully return it.

Also liked to tear up cases and wreck jacketing on the feed ramp

Traded it (and $100) for a stainless 4" GP-100 and never looked back

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Bond derringer ... it wasn't junk, of course, it was beautifully made, but after I shot it a few times, I was hard-pressed to figure out what it was good for ... only two rounds, hard to hold, hard to cock, takes forever to reload and then you still only have two rounds ... nice conversation piece at the range, great paperweight ... long gone ...

as for Hi-Point ... have a 9mm carbine which works like a charm, no problems, accurate, fun to shoot ... once the word got out, all the deer that used to dine on the golf course behind my house moved to other holes ... and I don't even hunt ...

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AMT Backup .380...... Three trips to the gunsmith and twice to the factory could not make this thing go BOOM.....click click click....BOOM....click...BOOM....click click. (you get the idea)

LOL! I ran into that problem in the 80s when I was still working. Our shop ordered 6 from AMT, out of which exactly one would fire.

I went crazy looking for a solution (stronger hammer spring, lighter firing pin return spring, slight enlargement of the clearance slot on the fp, etc., etc.), but finally had an epiphany one day.

The problem was that the hammers had been cast slightly oversize, and, when the trigger was pullled, the front of the hammer was dragging against the sear, slowing it down enough so that the pistols wouldn't fire. Some slight dressing of the oversized front portion of the hammer and, voila!, they all fired reliably after that.

Kahr CW45. My plan was to run 200rds through the gun one day, I couldn't get through a 6rd magazine without having 6 FTF, always took 2 primer strikes. I tried Federal, winchester white box, speer gold dots, blazer and some remington golden sabers. Nothing. Heck I even ran some cheap Wolf through it and believe it or not it actually shot that a little better than the other stuff.

Called Kahr and I was told that I needed to get the required 250rds break in put through it and it should start to work itself out. I couldnt get 100rds through the gun how was I suppose to get up to the 250???

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